On Feb 12, 2008 1:53 PM, Markus Hitter <<a href="mailto:mah@jump-ing.de">mah@jump-ing.de</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Am 12.02.2008 um 01:04 schrieb Ioannis Nousias:<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> In real life we see a chair (for instance) and we know it's a<br>> chair. We don't need a little label there telling us it's a chair ;)<br>
<br></div>If you see a chair the first time in your life, you actually need a<br>label (or somebody telling you what this thing is). Furthermore, not<br>every piece of software is as commonly known as a chair. There's so<br>
much software today you even start to forget rarely used icons over<br>time.<br></blockquote><div><br>If you see a chair for the first time in your life, will you know what the word "chair" means? <br><br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">BTW, did you ever try to explain some icon-only thing solely with<br>words (like, over the phone)?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>That's why we have both. It's not like we leave words out completely (like the OLPC Sugar interface does...that thing is confusing).<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mackenzie Morgan<br>Linux User #432169<br>
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